It’s been a great month for adding new SQL Server MCMs. Please meet our newest community member:

Guillaume Kieffer, Senior Premier Field Engineer, Microsoft. Guillaume joined Microsoft France 9 years ago. He started as a SQL Server support engineer and then moved to Microsoft UK two years later to become a SQL Server Premier Field Engineer. He travels around the world to solve critical situations, review data tier architectures and deliver training workshops (SQL Performance Tuning, Clustering, SQL administration, SQL replication, etc…). His main area of expertise is Performance Tuning.

A good place to start would be the "Troubleshooting Performance Problems in SQL Server 2008" White Paper: msdn.microsoft.com/…/dd672789.aspx Talks about all the various tools and techniques, including: